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NOTE: This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and it is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for legal or compliance advice. For specific advice on how you are to comply with the GDPR, you should consult your own legal advisor.

The following is simply a general outline of things to consider related to GDPR as it affects a merchant who has downloaded and installed the Zen Cart application on a webserver to run an online
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NOTE: This post assumes some pretty solid PHP knowledge, because all the changes listed will require adapting your code to find a new way to do whatever it was doing before.

NOTE: This is not the complete official list of changes. I've edited this list down to the basics, catering mostly to the topics that might affect people writing plugins for Zen Cart. For much more detailed
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I frequently see people asking "Do I need SSL", and "How do I fix this SSL error?". There is some confusion in the meanings of the 2 parts that make SSL work, both in the front and back of the website.

Vagrant is a tool (or set of tools) to manage Virtual Machines.
Virtual machines allow you to run a completely different operating system, or even the same operating system within your current operating system. For example you could run Ubuntu within your Windows machine.

Why is this useful ?

Well there are 2 main reason. Standardization and reproduciblity.

Running code on a VM means you are using a standard system that others can use as well.
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TL;DR / Executive Summary:
Are you looking for a quick way to understand best practices when upgrading your Zen Cart site? The easiest way to view it is as "a rebuild while keeping all the existing data."

This article contains 3 sections: 1. What an upgrade is, and what it is not.
2. An overview of how to rebuild a site using the new version, instead of upgrading.
3. How to upgrade while keeping the store live, and not losing any sales/customer/product
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